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Crystalline Melbourne songwriter Tammy Haider’s debut solo album, The One, is an interplay of the organic and the experimental; a humour of the mind, an ache of the heart, drawing the listener close like a confidant.

Whilst Tammy Haider loves and lives to play music, her lifestyle as a musician is slightly atypical. Rather than inhabiting the clichés of inner city life ­ soaking up sound, living after dark, and falling into dangerous adventures with all the right people ­ Haider prefers a splendid isolation, more akin to a poet or short storywriter. “It’s how I make sense of my life”, Haider explains. “I know I can write a good song, that’s a really powerful thing – I’m blessed I can do that. I like taking myself away, not being around people.”

Domiciled in Berlin for several years, Haider got hungry – hungry for new experience, new music, and new ways of creating. Leaving her much loved ambient/alt.country duo Royalchord behind in Berlin, Haider circled back to Melbourne with a well received EP, Genuine Feeling; a bridge between Royalchord and her long awaited solo debut, The One.
Throughout her new work, Haider’s effortlessly melodious voice takes centre stage around acoustic and electronic music spheres, created by Haider and her co­producer Andrew Bencina; with Barry Turnbull, Andrew Papadopoulos, Marcel Borrack, Tobias Hengeveld, and Jeff Samin all lending different instrumental voices. And while it expands the preceding EP’s wry tales onto a wider, stranger, more reflective canvas, this new work is highly unfiltered; her autobiographical epiphanies ringing more deeply true as they ascend to a higher plane.